"Please don't cancel The 4400. You see, I live in my mom's basement surviving only on her hatred and easy cheese. I'm terrified of real people, so I base my understanding of the world on "politically insightful shows". If you take this show away from me, it will be like killing a member of my family.

Please don't take away my hope."

Then it falls into a level of crazyness that I can't translate. Something about George Bush putting bugs in his ear.

I'm considering going to the 4400 thread and saying, "You know what? I think that USA's poor advertising for the show and the lack of budget money really contributed to the problems this show had. What do you guys think? Also, Ira Behr is still so damn witty and politically insightful. I wonder who would win if he fought Chris Carter."

Originally posted by phillyfan26 I'm considering going to the 4400 thread and saying, "You know what? I think that USA's poor advertising for the show and the lack of budget money really contributed to the problems this show had. What do you guys think? Also, Ira Behr is still so damn witty and politically insightful. I wonder who would win if he fought Chris Carter."

Finally, in Kyle, we have an example of lost youth searching for meaning in life, as I and so many other Muslims and non-Muslims are. Like many vulnerable people, Kyle finds comfort and guidance in a seemingly sound movement. His behavior has very relevant parallels to, most obviously, Islamic fundamentalism, but also to fundamentalism in other religions. Zionist Jews lobbied for the war in Iraq, according to a Bill Moyers discussion, and have long supporting Israel’s occupation and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. Although the 4400 didn’t terrorize people out of their homes in creating “Promise City”, the expansion of their city’s borders is similar to the expansion of those of Israel beyond the zone accepted by the UN. Additionally, apt parallels can be drawn to politically-active Christian fundamentalists, like the Christian Coalition, who don’t need to use terrorism to achieve their objectives. They employ the arm of the state to wage war on the Middle East; push for discrimination against nations whose leaders stand up to American power in their people’s interests, like Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro; support the most right wing elements in Israel; and effectively insist on the incompatibility between their kind of Christianity and all others faiths, especially Islam. Moreover, Kyle stands in stark contrast to Jordan’s practicality in being more ideologically committed, yet still torn over the means to achieving paradise. By placing characters in situations similar to many Muslims and other discriminated minorities, viewers are able to sympathize with them and see how they might behave the same way. In so doing, the black and white homogenizing assumptions with which the US mainstream media unconsciously portrays the Muslim world are dispelled through “The 4400.”

Yeah, I read one thread, the 3am one, and when I realized there was a fucking scroll WITHIN THE INDIVIDUAL post, I bailed, man. Dude's writing manifestos on this shit. The sad part is, the show really wasn't THAT good. In fact, no show has ever been THAT good. Star Wars is not THAT good - and I loved Star Wars, man. I bought a boba fett figure yesterday - for myself. But Boba Fett himself isn't THAT good.